>> eugene, final point, you've got the last 30 seconds. >> all of that is exactly right. they want this president to be seen as someone who is helping the everyday americans and when you have those black voters and i talked to the folks that he's talked to they feel differently about him and now you have the president explaining the kinds of things that he has done for them, and that is something that this administration has failed to do. we have a lot of time to go before that ends, but they'll be doing that. >> all right. great conversation. that is all for today. thank you for watching. we will be back next week because if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." our freedoms are going to be on the ballot this november. donald trump and the republicans are trying to take our freedoms

away. >> joe biden should not be shouting angrily at america. americans should be shouting angrily at joe biden. president biden and donald trump escalating their attacks in georgia over the weekend. what each candidate warned would happen if the other returned to the white house. plus, the president caught on a hot mic after the state of the union address showing his growing frustration with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. what biden told msnbc in a sitdown in an exclusive interview on what he actually meant to say. and also. >> and the oscar goes to kelly murphy. >> "oppenheimer" wins big at the oscars, taking home awards. we'll show you the biggest

moments and oscar snubs. good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this monday, march 11th. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we'll start this morning with a race to the white house. president biden and former president donald trump each made campaign stops in the balleground state of georgia on saturday ahead of the state's presidential primaries tomorrow. biden took his state of the union address to atlanta where he went after trump several times. >> my state of the union address, i talked about a social worker in alabama. she's scheduled an ivf treatment. it was shut down on the supreme

court's decision to overturn roe v. wade. what her family has gone through should have never happened. and, folks, you know why this happened. i'll tell you why. donald trump. >> our freedoms are literally on the ballot this november. donald trump and the maga republicans are trying to take our freedoms away. and, by the way, not all republicans. this ain't your father's republican party. these guys are different. but guess what? we're not going to let them take them away. >> we all know donald trump sees a different america, an american story of resentiment, rew e vench, and retribution. that's not me, that's not you. we see a future where we're defining democracy and defend it, not diminish it. we see a future where we defend basic freedoms, not take them away. and on saturday in the city of rome, which is marngry taylor greene's district, donald trump started things off by mocking

president biden's stutter, only to stutter with his own words as the night progressed. he also blasted a recent judge's ruling which he found been. >> we all heard crooked joe's angry, dark hate-filled rant in his state of the union address. didn't it bring us together? bring the country to-to-to-together. >> i just posted a $91 million story, a made-up story. think of it. $91 million. i could say things about what it would cost normally. $91 million. based on false accusations made about me by a woman that i knew nothing about, didn't know, never heard of. i know nothing about her. she wrote a book. she said things. and when i denied it, i said

it's so crazy. it's false. i got sued for defamation. >> everything joe biden touches turns to [ bleep ]. they talk about the beautiful dream of migrants. it sounds so nice, like in a fairy-tale book. some of it is monstrous. it sounds so invasive. >> i will stop the killing, i will stop the bloodshed, the agony of our people, the plundering of our cities, the attacks on our towns, the conquering of our country. these people are conquering our country. they're horrible people. >> the polls are all rigged. of course, lately they haven't been rigged because they're winning by so much. >> i watch the criminals back there. look how many of them. women. women love me. you know, i protect women. i did more for black people than any president other than abraham

lincoln. >> they have little problems like they westernlet allowed to have water go into their washing machines. you know, minor little problems, but they took care of it. >> ukraine and russia wouldn't be fighting. >> they're recognizing law enforcement for high election interference against joe biden's top and his political opponent, me. >> 10,000 for electricity. all over an incompetent biden administration. >> we've become a nation like nobody thought possible. >> so much of that untrue and dangerous. and the day before, trump hosted hungary's autocratic prime minister viktor orban at his florida home. trump and orban met at mar-a-lago to discuss wide-ranging issues affecting hungary and the united states. orban who has close ties to russian president vladimir putin has refused to provide any aid

to ukraine while seeking to turn his own nation into a liberal state. trump has repeatedly bragged about having orban's endorsement for his 2024 campaign, and at dinner on friday, he fawned over the hungarian leader. >> there's nobody that's better, smarter, or a better human than viktor orban. he's fantastic. as you know, he's the prime minister of hungary and does a great job as a noncontroversial figure because he said this is the way it's going to be and that's the end of it, right? he's the boss. no, he's a great leader. joining us now, senior politics reporter for axios, eugene scott. eugene, nice to see you. let's start with the viktor orban meeting. he's running an illegal state, cracking down on free speech and

trump idolizes him and boasts about having his endorsement. tell us what this means for the campaign ahead. how will democrats try to use this as an issue? >> well, they've already been using it. as you've seen, joe biden has highlighted the fact that the former president has cozied up to someone who's known for his -- i can't even speak -- for his criticism on democracy, his criticism on free speech, his hostility toward immigrants and just being a very difficult person when it comes to trying to put forward an agenda that would be winsome to many people outside of trump's base. >> yeah. there were moments where trump wishes that he could rule the united states like orban does hungary. so let's talk about the weekend, this split screen here. trump and biden both in georgia, key battleground state, traditionally. polls show trump up slightly, and the president's team has

acknowledged winning it this year probably harder than it was in 2020. tell us a little more about what we heard from each man, their respective messages, and particularly as they aim toward african american voters. >> well, one thing i think we realize about this election that we learned in 2020 is that it will be won by swing voters, or shall we say independent voters, people who are undecided, not in either parties. these are the individuals they're trying to turn out. they need new voters. they need voters who perhaps consider the previous guy but are maybe upset with how he's done and are looking to make a change or along with voters not wed to any clear ideology but aren't really pleased with the alternative. so that's where you're going to see a lot of the messages directed toward, trying to get these people to be willing to participate instead of sitting this election out. >> eugene, it seems like

president biden has a message coming out after a strong state of the union address, and also recent polls show some improvement there for him. when you speak to democrats around washington, some who are really gripped with anxiety about the president's standing and his age, are they starting to feel a little better now? >> they are pretty confident. they were pleased with how the state of the union address went, and they believe that this momentum can continue toward november. what they're also trying to put an emphasis on is the importance of not just cutting out and backing biden but voting for democrats in the house and the senate because there's a real awareness to get biden's agenda accomplished, he's going to need people in congress who can move that forward, opposed to blocking it, and making it very difficult for him to do what he wants to do, which is currently the case with republicans in control of the house and having a significant makeup in the senate. >> senior politics reporter for axios, eugene scott, thank you for starting us off this

morning. and speaking of the state of the union, senator katie britt of alabama is attempting to clean up her strange and misleading response to president biden's address. during her remarks, the first term republican senator linked a graphic account of a young woman's sex trafficking to biden's immigration policies, but that abuse actually happened during president george w.bush's time in office, which was nearly 20 years ago, and it happened in mexico, not the united states. >> did you mean to give the impression that this horrible story happened on president biden's watch? >> no, shannon. look, i very specifically said this is what president biden did during his first 100 days. minutes after coming into office, he stopped all deportations, he halted construction of the border wall. >> but to be clear, the story that you relate is not something that happened under the biden

administration, that particular person. >> i very clearly said, i spoke to a woman who told me about when she was trafficked when she was 12. >> britt still trying to recover from that speech. "saturday night live" and others poked fun at it. still ahead on "way too early," we'll bring you the latest from haiti and the u.s. military evacuates embassy staff amidst the unrest that's growing across the country. and it was a big, big night for "oppenheimer." those stories and a check on sports and weather when we come right back. sports and weather when we come right back

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welcome back. a story of growing concern here. the u.s. military has carried out an an operation in haiti ov

the weekend and allowed nonessential personnel to leave. the island nation is under a state of emergency after armed gangs have overrun the capital, attacking police stations, looting buildings, and shutting down the airport. the ensuing violence has plunged the country into chaos with the government on the verge of collapse. today caribbean leaders are holding an emergency meeting in jamaica to discuss what they call the dire situation. we'll keep you posted on this in the days ahead. meanwhile, several news agencies have removed a nude photo of the princess of kate middle on the and her children due to issues of manipulation. kensington palace released the picture yesterday. you can see it there. but many outlets removed it flagging concerns about authenticity. the photo noted this.

it shows an inconsistency of misalignment of princess charlotte's left hand. there are odd moments in the background as well. kensington palace pla has not commented. this is the first photo they've put out of kate. this photo raising more questions as to what is going on there. and also the 96th annual oscars were held last night. oppenheimer ended up with the most wins including the coveted best picture award. the biopic also nabbed the best statue actor for cillian murphy. and the best supporting actor went to robert downey jr. and emma stone won for best actress. it featured show-stopping performances from singer bill bely eilish and actor ryan

gosling. the duo recorded songs from the "barbie" sound track. kimmel then made jokes about robert downey. and then he responded. >> i just got a review. has there ever been a worst host than jimmy kimmel at the oscars. his opening was than the average person, something of which he is not and never can be. get rid of kimmel but replace him with another washed up abc talent. see if you can tell me which former president posted that. anyone? no one? thank you, president trump. thank you for watching. i'm surprised -- isn't it past

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victory over nebraska. with the big ten tournament in hand, iowa might have also secured a top seed in the union coming ncaa tourn moneyet for just the third time in program history, a first since 1992. there will be more eyes on the women's tournament this year rather than men's mostly because of caitlin clark. they were one of the dominant teams. but there was an ugly scene on the court which marred south carolina's s.e.c. championship game over lsu. game cox' forward camilla cardosa was one of six players ejected from the contest after she shoved a tigers player to the floor on the fourth quarter. lsu was left with only its five starting players after disqualifications. south carolina wins, 79-72. meanwhile the u.s. women's national soccer team is the gold cup champion. team usa rode on a 46-point header by captain lindsey jorge.

they phased brazil. the americans also won the three, which included the gold medal game including the 2004 and 2008 olympics. we turn to the nba in a first of its kind-star last night. anthony davis finished with a historic stat line against the minnesota timberwolves. that's never before been done in an na game. that. >> now to quarterback updates ahead of the new year. after a rough ride with the denver broncos over the last two seasons, russell wilson is reported will i set to sign a one-year contract with the pittsburgh steelers. the nine-time pro bowler and one-time super bowl champion tagged the steelers for his 13th

n season. to the patriots, they appear to be parting ways with mac jones. he was so promising as a rookie. i blame bill belichick for stalling his development the last two years. jones needed a change of scenery. baker mayfield on a reported three-year deal worth $100 million returns to the bucs, and in the game of the year, liverpool and manchester city ended with a 1-1 time. arsenal on top of the tavl. liverpool and man city just behind. it's going to be a wild finish. time now for the weather. we bring in michelle grossman. for those of us doing television, it's the worst day of the year. we lost an hour of sleep. >> you have no clue what times it is. also mentioning tottenham, they had a good game. let's talk about weather.

we're looking at a west storm. that's going to bring rain and high elevation snow. also in the middle of the country, looking really warm. temperatures well above normal. even 10 to 40 degrees above normal for what is typical this time of year. wind, we're going to see airport delays, power outages because we're seeing winds gusting. they were gusting yesterday. they're going to continue today. 62 mill uppeople impacted. we have wind advisories. that is in the blue. high wind warnings in the purple. north of asheville too. we're going to see winds gusting, up to 60 miles an hour. albany, atlantic city seeing some gusty winds. looking at snowfall as well. it's cold out there. it's cold enough to snow in some spots in the interior parts of the northeast. in new england, we're going to see quite a bit of know in some spots. that would be the higher elevations where you see the pinks and some purposes. it's really warm in the middle

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welcome back to "way too early." it's exactly 5:30 a.m. here on

the east coast, 2:30 out west on this monday morning. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. capitalizing off the president's well-received state of the union address, the biden campaign released a new political ad over the weekend. take a look. >> look, i'm not a young guy. that's no secret. but here's the deal. i understand how to get things done for the american people. i led the country through the covid crisis. today we have the strongest economy in the world. i passed a law that lowers prescription drug prices, caps it at $35 a month for seniors. for four years donald trump tried to pass an infrastructure law and he failed. i got it done. now we're rebuilding america. i passed the biggest law in history to combat climate change because our future depend on it. donald trump took away the freedom of women to choose. i'm determined to make roe v. wade the law of the land again. donald trump believed the job of the president is to take care of

donald trump. i believe the job of the president is to fight for you, the american people, and that's what i'm doing. i'm joe biden, and i approve this message. >> can we do one more take? >> look, i'm very young, energetic, and handsome, what the hell am iing down this for? >> that ad will run in critical swing states like pennsylvania and georgia. it's part of a six-week, $36 billion ad baijiu joining us now, shelby talcott. good to see you again. so the biden team, they read the polls. they know that a lot of voters are concerned about the president ice age, and in recent weeks we've seen him take it more and more head on, sometimes with jokes that came up during the state of the union address, and certainly the campaign ad. it's front and center. as you talk to democrats and republicans, what do you u think? do you think this new attack will blunt his age?

when you talk to republicans, there's a fundamental difference between joe biden's age and donald trump's age. they're not giving the president any leeway on this issue. but when you talk to democrats, it's really interesting that they're now being so aggressive with the biden age issue because a few months ago, i think the argument among people close to the white house and even people within the campaign was at the end of the day, voters are not going to vote based on the president's age. they're going to vote based on the issues and based on the fact that he's running against donald trump. the campaign still believes that's true, but as you've said, they've seen the polls. they realize this is more of a serious issue for voters than i think they anticipated, and so we're seeing this sort of reaction to try to not only argue that joe biden is, yes, old, but competent, but also bringing the topic back to his accomplishments, which have been

a little bit overshadowed amid this particular conversation. >> yeah, it seems like a smart tactic, and it comes as there's more and more questions about donald trump's mental acuity, and, of course, done only a couple of years younger than biden. you've got new reporting for semafor and biden's team has ramped up attacks on project 2025, which is trump's agenda were he to be elected again. give us some of the background. >> project 2025 is theest to staff and prep the next trump administration, and while trump's team has been very careful to distance itself from all of these efforts, it is notable that they have a number of former trump allies, and it is very clear that these -- a lot of these initiatives from project 2025 are tied into what donald trump has said he wants to do.

and so the biden campaign has seen onloon this sort of organic interest particularly among young voters when it comes to this project 2025 and its initiative, and so they've really started to target it. this is some of their best producing tiezmentes online and on tiktok when they go at project 2025. and now in the last few weeks they've expanded it and sort of begun to argue that it's not just about the heritage foundation's project 2025 but in general donald trump's project 2025 and what he would do in another upcoming administration. >> one of our stalwarts, shelby talcott for semafor. i'm sure we'll be speaking with you again soon. next we'll go to cnbc and what's driving on wall street following the worst week for dow. the morning's top business stories when we come right back. s stories when we come right back.

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since the middle of last year, in fact, around june or so of last year. that's $100 billion lost in one day, right? a significant move downward. the likes of broadcom losing quite significantly. this came also on the backs of the job numbers. we have the unemployment number coming out of the united states too. you saw the overall jobs figure. unemployment, 3.9%. that's up from the 3.7% we saw initially, but the economy did add 275,000 jobs for the month of february. that is compared to the 200,000 that the market had initially anticipated. so still a bit of a mixed report there. >> let's go a little deeper on the jobs data. as noted, promising signs for the labor market, but what can we extrapolate as to what it means for inflation, prices, and interest rates? >> yeah, so that's going to be the interesting elements here because it was a bit of a mixed one. you had on the one end, the rise to 275,000 jobs.

that's a good figure in terms of the economy still growing, still shooting on all cylinders. on the other side, you had unemployment sitting at 3.9%. wage growth is slowing. soft figure overall there. it does give a clear sign that maybe those interest rate increases we have seen over the last two years are beginning to take hold of the economy. but overall, the u.s. economy is still shooting a lot better than all the other markets around the globe. the question mark is this the kind of evidence then that the fed would be looking at to kind of give them a clearer sense that they do need to cut interest rates in june? one would definitely say no because the fed has said they're looking for things that are slowing down the economy in order for them to get to a cut in interest rates, particularly in june or later. >> cnbc's arabile gumede live from london. thank you as always. next up here, president biden is ramping up his criticism of his israeli

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expression used in the southern part of my state, meaning a serious meeting. it was -- i've known bibi for 50 years and he knew what i meant by it. >> what's the come to jesus part? what tough love are you going to give to the prime minister? >> what's happening is he has a right to defend israel, a right to continue to pursue hamas, but he must, he must, he must pay more attention to tin oh sent lives being lost as a consequence of the actions taken. he's hurting, in my view, he's hurting israel more than helping israel by making the rest of the world -- it's contrary to what israel stands for, and i think it's the biggest mistake, and i want to see a cease-fire. >> what is your red line with prime minister netanyahu? do you have a red line? for instance, would invasion of rafah, which you have urged him not to do, would that be a red

line? >> i'm never going to leave israel. the defense of israel is still critical. i'm not going to cut off all weapons so they don't have the iron dome to protect them. the red line is you cannot have 30,000 more palestinians dead as a consequence of going after them. there's other ways to get to, to deal with the trauma caused by hamas. >> we'll talk more about that interview with jonathan capehart when he joins us later on "morning joe." meanwhile netanyahu is rejecting biden's criticism. he said he's doing what the people want and he defied the red line with rafah saying israeli troops will still move into the southern portion of gaza city. joining us from politico, laura seligman. it's good to see you this morning. there's been tension behind the

scenes between netanyahu and biden. it's spilling out into the open. talk about the red line the president is putting town. what do we know of when and where is real is planning to invade rafah, and what do you expect the response to be? >> they've never seen eye to eye, but tensions have increased over the recent weeks over the plans to invade gaza where israel says the remnants of hamas leadership are hiding. israel had plans to invade rafah by ramadan, which actually started yesterday, if the hostages were not released. that deal, that cease-fire deal never came to fruition. israel still has not gone in, but netanyahu insists that's an operation that will soon happen. biden has been pleading with him not at to invade because of the more than 1 million people that

are sheltering there. clearly president biden recognizes the political danger here as more people die in gaza especially in an election year. he's in this tricky position. he finds himself on both sides of the war now. on the one hand, he's providing support and weapons to israel while on the other hand he's trying to deliver aid to gaza, the people starving there. that's why he's trying to thread the needle with air drops the u.s. military has doing and the latest plan to have the army build a pier for the army. >> there's no cease-fire in place as the u.s. had hoped. that appears to be more the fault of hamas. so, lara, if, though, the biden views netanyahu crosses the red line, they go into rafah in the days and weeks ahead, what potentially would be the administration's response? would they attach conditions to aid? would they cut off military supplies? what are some options being

considered? >> well, i think that's a very current discussion right now that officials are looking at. there are multiple things that u.s. officials could do to condition aid. look, the u.s. provides more than $3 billion a year in military aid. they provide iron dome interceptors, they provide munitions. f-35s they're selling to israel. so the u.s. has some leverage here. unfortunately many of those weapons have already gone over to israel, so it already does have a sophisticated army, so that limits the leverage the u.s. has. i don't think the u.s. officials, the biden administration, they've been very strong in their support of israel. i don't think that there will be conditions on military aid, although that is something being discussed. i think it'll be more of the carrot approach in this situation. i think that they're going to incentivize israel with normalizing ties with other arab

countries such as saudi arabia. i think there will be more incentives for them not to go into gaza, to make sure they're being precise in their oppositions, than using the stick in this future operation. >> laura, lastly and briefly, we mentioned earlier in the show the deteriorating situation in haiti. american staff being evacuated from the embassy there. how bad are things on the ground? >> they really are deteriorating. the fact the u.s. military did the secret night mission to air lift in marine security guards and lift out the non-essential employees at the embassy shows what is happening. gangs have been overrunning port-au-prince and other infrastructure. the government is in shambles. there is a humanitarian

disaster. the roads are blocked, food supply is threatened. access to health care and food is limited. it's a bad situation. that's why the biden administration decided finally to take the step and send in marine security to evacuate out non-essential personnel. the next step, it's really unclear right now. u.s. policy has been not to intervene militarily. they don't want u.s. boots on the ground, but something clearly needs to be done to control the situation. it is deteriorating. >> we'll be following it closely in the days ahead. pentagon reporter for "politico," thank you, as always. president biden's state o the union address brought him the biggest fundraising day since he launched the re-election bid. we'll break down the numbers as his campaign looks to build off the well-received speech. coming up on "morning joe," the trump/biden rematch began in

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welcome back. the biden campaign hit record fundraising numbers in the wake of the president's state of the union address. in the 24 hours after biden's remarks concluded thursday night, his re-election campaign raked in $10 million. that's a real number, and it's the largest 24-hour haul its campaign and affiliated committees have seen so far. joining us now, white house reporter for bloomberg news, josh wingrove. that's a big fundraising number for 24 hours. it adds to what was a significant advantage in terms of cash on hand. biden already enjoys that over donald trump. we're seeing biden increase the pace of travel. pennsylvania and georgia last week. he is going to new hampshire. he's got michigan and wisconsin coming up. it is biden-mentum.

talk to us about it. >> yeah, we'll see the drum beat continue this week, john. of course, we have the budget today. big day at bloomberg, you know? all our friends watching closely. >> we'll come back to that. >> that'll be good. he is trying to get that momentum going, both in terms of the fundraising you mentioned, and also just in terms of the polls. they're still looking for the rebound off the speech and also the recent news, the economic data we've seen. it's too early to say whether they'll get that on the polls, but the fundraising numbers are encouraging. it is one of the things that democrats point to when they talk about, you know, urging people to be calm about the polls and saying, let's just look at what people are doing, not what they're telling pollsters. that includes voting in special elections, though, of course, pollsters will say that's a different group of folks than show up to vote in a general election. more broadly, donations. the cash advantage here is significant. you know, the broader ecosystem, including aligned pacs, is 2-1

in terms of cash on hand for biden versus those supporting donald trump. some of trump's cash is going to go to his legal fees, so there's a dream there -- a drain there biden doesn't have. they're hoping they have moment in the key swing states. half a dozen or so they're watching closely. a small electoral map this cycle. >> today, he makes his first trip to new hampshire in two years. they think the only state they can flip might be north carolina. i said biden-mentum, but joe-mentum sounds better. he says, show me the budget, show me the priorities. tell us what he is proposing. >> he is talking about tax increases for corporations, including the rate and also speaking to the minimum tax that they would pay, as well as for high earners. of course, biden has always said no tax increases for those

making under $400,000. this will be one to look at. we have a conversation coming, i should say, on taxes, both with respect to the trump tax cuts about to expire. the next congress and president will have to decide what to do about that. more broadly, the deficit isn't in a great place. that'll be an increasing pressure. biden's budget will show about $3 trillion in cumulative deficit reduction other a decade-long period. that's compared to the $20 trillion expected to be added to the debt over that period. $3 trillion, big number, also a fraction of what the borrower is estimated to be right now. that's a big one. another thing we've reported at bloomberg, to andcalled the troe council of economics adviser and the economic council director who got into it a little bit over how to set the forecast for interest

pushing for a lower rate. that has the effect of painting a rosier picture today. it goes to show in the prep of this, rates were all over the place. the economy is doing weird things. markets are trying to churn things out where we're at with inflation. there was a lot of debate head heading into this one. >> the biden administration will continue to point to strong fundamentals of this economy and some polling that suggests americans starting to feel better. now, the trick s will they give the president credit? >> yeah. >> josh wingrove, come back soon. thank you for being with us. thanks for getting up "way too early" with us on this monday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. mr. president, enough is enough. the free world deserves better. and it doesn't have to be this way. we all